This packages contains data collected as part a research study at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre Malawi. Particulate matter measurements (PM 2.5 & PM 10) were taken in 5-minute intervals for at eight sensor locations over two months.
This data was used for a manuscript prepared for a journal. The reproducible manuscript can be found at https://github.com/Global-Health-Engineering/manuscript-qechairquality (Schöbitz et al. 2023).
You can install the development version of qechairquality from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("Global-Health-Engineering/qechairquality")Alternatively, you can download the individual datasets as a CSV or XLSX file from the table below.
| dataset | CSV | XLSX |
|---|---|---|
| qechairquality | Download CSV | Download XLSX |
| locations | Download CSV | Download XLSX |
The package provides access to two dataset.
library(qechairquality)The qechairquality data set has 4 variables and 203806 observations.
For an overview of the variable names, see the following table.
qechairquality| variable_name | variable_type | description |
|---|---|---|
| date_time | dttm | Timestamp of the air quality measurement. |
| location | character | Label for sensor location. |
| indicator | character | Air quality measurement indicator (pm2.5 and pm10). |
| value | double | Measured value in µg/m3. |
locations| variable_name | variable_type | description |
|---|---|---|
| location | character | Descriptive name of the location. |
| long | double | Longitude coordinate. |
| lat | double | Latitude coordinate. |
| type | character | Type of location. |
Data are available as CC-BY.
Schöbitz, Lars, Elizabeth Tilley, Marc Kalina, Jonathan Kwangulero, Saloni Vijay, and Hope Chilunga. 2023. Manuscript: "’It Is Unbearable to Breath Here’: Air Quality, Open Incineration, and Misinformation in Blantyre, Malawi". Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7841221.